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Eric Hood of Golder Associates Ltd. notes that municipal drinking water often doesn’t meet Ontario’s contaminated site cleanup standards, with potentially serious consequences for cleanups.

Electronic waste, or ‘e-waste’, has become a significant international environmental enforcement challenge. Each year, hundreds of thousands of used electronic items – containing highly toxic substances like lead, mercury and cadmium – are shipped across the world.

Understanding the new "Canadian Environmental Assessment Act" and how it relates to provincial environmental assessment and planning legislation is critical to the success of your energy, infrastructure and resource projects.

On November 1, 2017 Dentons hosted a panel discussion about the management of liabilities and risks associated with environmental crises and disasters.

It has long been the law that termination of contracts is permissible under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) with the effect of the...

The Environmental Review Tribunal has dismissed an anti-wind appeal, because the neighbours opposed to the project did not file a proper notice of appeal.

How damages are assessed in the environmental law context has been a bit of "moving target" over the last decade but there are a few key principles that emerge when you take a closer look at the case law.

In the case of Maloney v Garneau (2018 FC 188) the Applicant, Mr. David Maloney, sought judicial review of Aéroports de Montréal's ("ADM"), decision to develop federally-owned lands (the "Project").

For those who are following emerging developments in the nuclear industry, the 2021 Canadian Federal Budget (the "Budget") contains good news...

On March 29, 2022, the Government of Canada released the "2030 Emissions Reduction Plan: Canada's Next Steps to Clean Air and a Strong Economy" – the first Emissions Reduction Plan issued under the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act.

Our readers may be interested in the following article published this month in the Alberta Law Review, by authors Diana Audino (Senior Legal Counsel, Enbridge),

As we have written before, the Greater Sage Grouse is on the verge of extinction in Canada, likely due to habitat loss related oil and gas development.

On October 1, the 5 million barrel Gulf Deepwater Horizon spill finally moves on from emergency response.

On December 13th the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change announced its initiatives to promote energy-efficient homes.

The Environmental Law Centre of the University of Victoria has written to Suzanne Legault, Information Commissioner of Canada.

In 2002, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the international community adopted an ambitious target for world wide sound management of chemicals and hazardous wastes by 2020:

On November 30, 2018, Lake Louise Ski Area Ltd. (LLSA) was fined $2.1 million for the unlawful removal and destruction of 140 trees ...

Environment Canada has issued a $75,000 fine to a woman who pled guilty to two counts of violating the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act.